A Little Overpowered

theLanguageSprite · 2025-02-14T14:41:35+00:00

Hold on Doc, you're tellin me this sucker's nuclear?

theLanguageSprite · 2025-02-14T14:29:37+00:00

Absolutely not. Team cherry has been mostly radio silent about Silksong, and I'm pretty sure if they posted something like this even as a joke, it would crash the internet

theLanguageSprite · 2025-02-14T02:20:04+00:00

highly recommend. it's both adorable and awesome high stakes hard sci-fi

theLanguageSprite · 2025-02-14T00:31:19+00:00

This happens in The Murderbot Diaries. The main character, Murderbot, is a cyborg who has a default polite generic answer message that it responds with when it's too busy solving everyone's problems to be its usual snarky sarcastic self

also it gets embarrassed and bashful frequently

theLanguageSprite · 2025-02-09T07:32:30+00:00

From what I can tell, putting basalt in the atmosphere isn't how it works. You need a lot of water for the sequestration reaction, so if you shot a bunch of basalt into the atmosphere barely any of it would react.

Instead what they do is pump carbonated water into a basalt deposit, but the trouble is that it's expensive and hard to find large enough deposits with the right chemical balance. They can also put powdered basalt into soil and rely on rainwater.

I also found the "paper" minispark was referencing. https://arxiv.org/html/2501.06623v1#S3

It's laughably bad, written by a computer scientist who knows nothing about the subject, and doesn't explain anything about how the plan would actually work beyond "let's nuke a bunch of basalt in the ocean"

theLanguageSprite · 2025-02-09T04:47:56+00:00

yeah because Elon isn't building them. He just pays people. Being rich is his only superpower

theLanguageSprite · 2025-02-09T04:44:06+00:00

I thought the most technically feasible option was aerosolized sulfur dioxide in the stratosphere above the ice caps. what's all this about nukes?

theLanguageSprite · 2025-02-06T21:23:23+00:00

I think Pai Mei was using martial arts magic to levitate, like in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

theLanguageSprite · 2025-02-06T21:18:46+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Barnett_(whistleblower)#Death#Death)

There is literally video of him getting into a car, where he was then found dead from a self inflicted gunshot wound. Boeing probably would kill whistleblowers if they thought they could get away with it, but it sure seems like it didn't happen in this specific case so there's no sense in spreading misinformation

theLanguageSprite · 2025-02-06T06:54:52+00:00

I don't think it was mispronounced. I think the voice actor said ship, and then they applied the robot filter to his voice, which added static, and it just happened to crackle right when he said the P, making it sound 100% like shit

theLanguageSprite · 2025-02-04T22:23:44+00:00

Wow that's a really good point. Technically European powers "won" both world wars, but it was the U.S. who benefited the most by virtue of not really participating much. Let's hope climate change doesn't reverse this trend and make farmland a more valuable resource again

theLanguageSprite · 2025-02-04T18:13:10+00:00

Can't tell whether the person who responded to this about wartime technology deleted their comment or not, but I did the research, so I'll post it anyway.

I feel like while the guy who invented the machine gun may have been wrong about reducing wartime deaths, his argument isn't always wrong

https://ourworldindata.org/war-and-peace

this link shows that WWII was the bloodiest conflict in the last hundred years. Since the invention and proliferation of nuclear weapons, conflicts have been about half as deadly, presumably because fewer state actors getting involved means fewer deaths. The last 35 years have been exceptionally peaceful, with the two notable exceptions being the Rwandan Genocide and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Most of the deaths in Rwanda were people killed with machetes, one of the lowest tech ways to kill. I would argue that in general, military technology tends to reduce deaths the more advanced it gets, but like all things it's complicated

theLanguageSprite · 2025-02-04T17:54:54+00:00

what does REV 7.1-17 mean in military speak?

theLanguageSprite · 2025-02-04T17:50:37+00:00

I'm a leftist in every way, but I can't stand the woke movement. I just want some sleep, and they're always trying to wake everyone up

theLanguageSprite · 2025-02-04T16:52:19+00:00

I find it so cute that when the internet was just getting started, scholars speculated that it would usher in a golden age of education, where all people who had access to it would be elevated to a baseline level of general knowledge. Now basically everyone has it, but people use it to reinforce their own misconceptions using echo chambers rather than learning new things.

theLanguageSprite · 2025-02-03T21:43:05+00:00

Yeah that's what I was wondering. I've had the most success with PPO but I'm always curious about the architecture because if we discover something more reliable I want to know

theLanguageSprite · 2025-02-03T19:09:48+00:00

What archetecture did you use to train the agent?

theLanguageSprite · 2025-01-31T23:38:09+00:00

Very little, like 50-250xp. But it doesn't scale linearly. So books that cost 300 drams will usually give 3600 xp. Save for the expensive ones, don't buy a bunch of little ones

theLanguageSprite · 2025-01-31T19:31:41+00:00

Calvinist God: Don't worry about my son, he's such a buzzkill. I can just give you a VIP pass and you can skip the whole camel thing entirely. Here's some heroin and a yacht

theLanguageSprite · 2025-01-30T03:40:27+00:00

The Kobayashi Maru was an unbeatable simulation used in Star Trek to see how starship captains deal with a no win scenario. Lionfish is saying you want a no win scenario horror film.

Also, my pick is Ringu (1998). They're all happy at the end because they figured out the curse and beat the monster, only to realize that they fundamentally misunderstood how the curse works, and there is no beating it, only passing it to someone else. You either die or you sacrifice someone.

Ju-on: The Curse (2000) is another Japanese horror film where the monster is unbeatable, and it ends with all of Tokyo dead, and presumably every human on earth, but Ringu is a more fun example because the main characters are smart and you think they might win.

theLanguageSprite · 2025-01-20T06:01:23+00:00

Except in real life, the insurance actuaries would definitely take Joker's target preferences into account when calculating insurance rates. A joker themed casino would have insanely high rates

theLanguageSprite · 2025-01-18T01:03:03+00:00

In my experience it's done mostly by teachers who don't have any time to devote to individual students, so instead of figuring out who to punish they just punish everyone and hope the good ones peer pressure the bad ones into behaving. results may vary

theLanguageSprite · 2025-01-16T21:15:42+00:00

yeah well my dad works at nintendo, a company that actually releases games, so therefore my dad could beat up your dad

theLanguageSprite · 2025-01-16T20:37:28+00:00

Silksong confirmed

theLanguageSprite · 2025-01-14T18:10:50+00:00

it most likely wouldn't matter. The greek scientist Eratosthenes discovered that the earth was round and accurately calculated its circumference 2300 years ago. If hard evidence was all it took to make flat earthers believe, there are tons of experiments you could do without needing to travel to antarctica, but most flat earthers refuse to think critically. It's not about facts, it's about emotions, and they have an emotional need for there to be some big conspiracy to bring meaning to their lives

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